September17Rye – 6:30-8:00 pm – Serenity Café,– Open mike fiction and poetry;there will be as a featured poet, Rye native Bruce Valley,who will have available copies of his book of poetry titled "Rye Harbor."(John Simon, (603-205-5474 and john.wordpraxis.com,

1814 Francis Scott Key spent the night of September 13-14 on an American ship as the British shelled Baltimore. In "The Star-Spangled Banner," written on an envelope as he was taken ashore and revised in his hotel after night fell, Key recorded his feelings when dawn broke and the American flag still flew.